linux-kernel - Re: [patch 02/22] x86/cpu: Add conistent CPU match macros

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Date:   Fri, 20 Mar 2020 09:29:12 -0500
From:   Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, x86@...nel.org,
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Subject: Re: [patch 02/22] x86/cpu: Add conistent CPU match macros

s/conistent/consistent/ in subject

On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 02:13:47PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Finding all places which build x86_cpu_id match tables is tedious and the
> logic is hidden in lots of differently named macro wrappers.
> 
> Most of these initializer macros use plain C89 initializers which rely on
> the ordering of the struct members. So new members could only be added at
> the end of the struct, but that's ugly as hell and C99 initializers are
> really the right thing to use.
> 
> Provide a set of macros which:
> 
>   - Have a proper naming scheme, starting with X86_MATCH_
> 
>   - Use C99 initializers
> 
> The set of provided macros are all subsets of the base macro
> 
>     X86_MATCH_VENDOR_FAM_MODEL_FEATURE()
> 
> which allows to supply all possible selection criteria:
> 
>       vendor, family, model, feature
> 
> The other macros shorten this to avoid typing all arguments when they are
> not needed and would require one of the _ANY constants. They have been
> created due to the requirements of the existing usage sites.
> 
> Also a add a few model constants for Centaur CPUs and QUARK.

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